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Scholarly Communication Scholarly Communication (SC) is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond.

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The Scholarly Communication Life Cycle

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New Models of Digital Publishing Variety of channels Variety of formats

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Are We Ready? As academic librarians, what kinds of roles should we play in the new era of scholarly communication?

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Trusted Advice vs. Service Delivery We should be able to assist him/her, when a researcher asks us: –How to make my research outputs publicly available in a trusted channel –How to self-archive my own papers without violating any copyright policy –How to manage my massive scientific data

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Todays Topics How to make my research outputs publicly available in a trusted channel –Gold OA How to self-archive my own papers without violating any copyright policy –Green OA How to manage my massive scientific data –Data Curation

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Help Authors Avoid Gold Fever "A high proportion of Gold OA journals are lesser journals Criticisms –Spam invitations to submit papers –Inadequate peer review process Predatory OA Publishers –The mission is not to promote, preserve, and make available scholarship; but to exploit the author-pays, Open-Access model for their own profit –Provide little or no peer-review –Poor digital preservation

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Ways to Identify Possible Predatory OA Publishers

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Gold OA Directory - OASPA

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2) Green OA / Self-archiving

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Preprints Preprints: –"manuscripts intended for publication that have not yet been published but may have been reviewed and accepted for publication; or they may be in the process of being circulated for comment prior to publication US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 2004 Originally, preprints were just shared with interested small groups via private channels prior to publication

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Self-Archiving Self-archiving is to –deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website... –Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositor copy/pastes in the metadata (date, author- name, title, journal-name, etc.) and then attaches the full- text document The purpose of self-archiving is to –make the full text of the peer-reviewed research output of scholars/scientists and their institutions visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and useable by any potential user with access to the Internet… maximizes its visibility, usage and impact…

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SHERPA/ROMEO Publisher Self-archiving Policy SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) The RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving) –To investigate the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

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Publishers By Color o/browse.php

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IEEE is a RoMEO Green Publisher

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Check Self-Archiving Policy By Journal

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3) Science Data Origins –E-Science E-Science will refer to the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet –E-Social Science Social science using Grid Computing and other IT technologies to collect, process, integrate, share, and disseminate social and behavioral data.

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Data Repositories Utilize the Power of Extensive Users Around the World

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University Library Data Repositories Best Practices from Academic Libraries

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Work Flow of Cornell DataStaR DataStaR, a Data Staging Repository (http://datastar.mannlib.cornell.edu/) hosted by Cornell Universitys Albert R. Mann Library, was conceived of as a platform and a set of services to facilitate data sharing among collaborators, and to enable faculty to publish digital data and high quality metadata to domain-specific repositories and institutional repositories.

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Summary: Challenge & Opportunity for Librarians in the New Era of SC Support digital-publishing Provide self-publishing service Offer copyright consultation for faculty publications Provide data service and data literacy training Be sensitive to open access policies of scholarly information Work with various parties …